Flowers, 2003-04
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This series is an extension from my idea about contradictions between our individual perceptions and our common belief about the world. I superimpose a video projection of Lotus Garden in Chicago’s Botanic Garden on the top of stylized line art made from ‘Birds and Flowers Painting’ of the 19th century Korean Folk Painting. For me, this is a way of mapping my everyday environment with familiar but surreal encounters. By dismantling and recomposing Korean Folk Painting of birds and flowers on the top of today’s images, I reveal the irony and contradictions of our fixed ways in seeing things and values. |
Contradictions, 2001-02
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Because our everyday visual environment is covered by flows of various signs and commercials, my installations are to simulate a similar and an unexpected visual effect. My purpose is to create an displaced environment in the gallery space to challenge the identity of ourselves living in the homogenized society’s images by using: banners with screen print, digital/hand-made prints in video projection, water, and light box, and perspective boxes wrapped with printed fabric. My images are mostly based on print media, keeping my observational distance from the output, and they reveal my observation of the body both as a reflection of the world and as a lens of seeing the world through. |
Human Desire, 1998-2000
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When I reflect myself on the distorted surfaces, such as a concave or a convex mirror, each different surface creates a very interesting reflection of my body. Like these different reflections, my work is about the perception of the world depending very much on everybody’s different and unique viewpoint. I define the contemporary iconography in the visual culture by myself and display the diverse qualities in the groups of portrait of ordinary people and shapes with different perspectives. Focus in my work is on an association of our identity with the visual environment motivated by human desire. I demonstrate the relationship between this continuous obsession in human characteristics and a late-capitalistic society’s various images. |